You're a busy professional on the go, earning an email client to keep up with you. "Mail" on the iPhone was not always the best option, but thanks to iOS 13 it feels like a completely different app. That said, there are many alternatives that offer a different experience. Better still, these apps are free . You do not have to spend a penny to try it yourself.

Looking for an app that can help you sort your emails intelligently? How about one who protects you from sketchy senders? Maybe you just want an email app with a good widget or support for topics. These and other features can be found in the clients listed below. All work with most e-mail accounts. Take a look!

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Important Comparison Points

Protocols

IMAP support: Most common e-mail services, such as Yahoo Mail, Google, or iCloud, are Internet Messaging Access Protocol (IMAP) accounts. If you use an email from a popular service, your account may be running up to IMAP.

POP3 support: Unlike IMAP accounts, where your emails are continually stored on a server, Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) accounts download these emails and delete it from the server. These accounts are not as populous as IMAP and are not supported by many email applications. So if you have a POP3 account, make sure that the selected app is compatible.

SMTP Support: Otherwise known as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, these accounts typically send only files to another source and are not themselves involved in receiving messages. If your account works with SMTP, make sure the email client supports it.

App Features

Smart Inbox: A smart inbox sorts your emails to give you a clear overview of the most important information. They vary from app to app, but ideally, a smart inbox displays personal or important emails at the top of your inbox. Then, less important emails, such as newsletters or notifications, are collected in a separate section or removed from the Inbox. In short, the email experience is much more focused.

Bundles: Bundles are similar to a Smart Inbox Inbox, but work differently. Bundles group your emails by type into specific folders or even as a combined email. For example, Bundles could group all of your emailed vouchers into a folder in the sidebar of your email app to organize your content in a new way.

Schedule emails: If you need to send an email to someone If you do not have access to your iPhone, you need an app that allows you to schedule emails. This will allow you to set a later date for sending your email, knowing that the email will arrive where it belongs.

Disable Email: You are afraid to forget an email in your inbox? Snooze it! You can set a time when you will be notified of this email in the future so that you can respond appropriately. Or you can just fall asleep again.

VIP Mailbox: A VIP mailbox displays only emails from contacts you have tagged as VIPs. This makes the Inbox much more targeted, as it only displays emails from senders that you know are important to you.

Number of Swipe Actions: In most email apps on iOS, you can swipe left or right in an email to open a series of controls, such as: For example, answer, pin, delete or mark as read. These actions allow you to interact faster with your inbox. The more actions available, the better.

Select All: We've examined areas in every app where you can select all emails. These areas included mailboxes, folders, and wanted emails.

Find attachments: Search allows you to filter attachments with apps using this feature. Some apps may have a special option to search for attachments, while others may allow you to enter a file type.

Bulk deletion from the search: With the app you can delete multiple emails while searching.

Hiding Design in Multitask: Apps with this feature let you minimize your email designs so that you can continue working in the app without ever closing the design.

Widgets: On the left, iOS widgets are displayed on the lock screen and the home screen on your iPhone, and they show the most important information about the app at a glance.

Smart Notifications: Just like a smart inbox, smart notifications only send notifications for important emails, either from the person or topic of the email. Ideally, the app automates this process. However, in some apps, you can manually adjust the notification settings to create your own "smart" alerts.

Quick response via the lock screen: The quick response allows you to respond directly to the lock screen from within an email without having to start the app itself.

Save frequent searches: You can also think of this as your e-mail search history.

Flags: Some apps call these flags, other pins. Either way, you can use this tool to mark emails as important. In some apps, you can even set several colors for flags. This can be helpful in quickly distinguishing important messages.

Mute conversations: In some apps, you can mute email threads just as you would when you chat in Messaging or Messenger. [19659010] Rich Text Formatting: If you can customize your fonts, text size, color, etc. with the app, it supports Rich Text Formatting or RTF.

Teams: Imagine teams like groups. This feature allows users who all use the same email app to chat, email, and more.

Templates: Does the app support the creation of email templates?

Signatures: The app should allow this Create and save email signatures.

iOS 13 Dark Mode Support: While many apps have been running a dark mode for some time, we are looking for apps that support the system-wide dark mode of iOS 13. This means that the app changes its theme depending on the current system theme.

Custom Topic: With this in mind, we're also looking for apps that let you override this feature and select your own theme.

Siri Shortcuts: With Siri shortcuts, you can complete tasks quickly and activate app functions with the push of a button or a Siri request.

Alarm Tone Adjustment: We do not want to keep putting that same sound on again and again. We are looking for apps that allow us to change these warning tones.

In-App Logout: E-mail in 2019 means a lot junk mail. For this reason, the ability to unsubscribe directly from the app is so powerful.

Customizable browser options: When you open a link in an email, you can specify which browser the page is rendered from. [19659010] Block Tracker: Opening an e-mail is not always one-sided. Some messages have trackers, usually an image that is returned to the sender when you open the message.

Undo Submit: Oops! Did not you want to send this message yet? Some apps will give you a small window of time to undo a sent message, and will save you so much embarrassing situations.

Blocking Addresses: With some apps, you can block certain email addresses to free your inbox from unimportant senders.

Encrypted Messaging: Privacy and e-mail should go hand in hand, but often not. That's why it's fantastic when an email app offers encrypted messages that only protect your email on your device.

Last Updated: We did not weight this point in our final rating because all apps were on this list. Updated recently, but it's always good to know how your apps are regularly maintained by their developers.

Select preferred language: In iOS, you can set your preferred language for Preferences -> General -> Language and Region for your entire device. This then opens options for many apps to choose a preferred language.

Filter: Filters make it easier to view what you're looking for in your inbox. Options include only today's emails, attached emails, unread emails, etc.

Full Page Screenshots: In iOS 13, you can create screenshots that cover the entire page of your app, even though You can not see this on the screen. This feature is currently apparently limited to iOS apps. However, we hope that it will also be available for third-party apps in the near future.

Face ID / Touch ID Security: ] If you want to further protect your emails, use an email client with Face ID or Touch ID security. That way, potential intruders can not access your email without scanning your face or fingerprint.

Calendar integration: Certain customers integrate their calendars directly into the app Avoid switching between applications to complete time and date-related tasks.

Third Party Application Integration: These clients are designed to work with third party applications directly in the application and simplify your workflow. [19659053] How We Picked These Apps

To narrow the field, we did not allow email apps with user ratings below 4.5 stars in the App Store. Although ratings may be subjective, apps with more than 4.5 stars generally proved worth considering for the best apps of their kind.

In addition to simply testing each application, we looked for specific features and options to be an ideal e-mail address. client. Of course, there is no perfect app, but these key points gave us a more subjective way to compare the different apps we tried. That is, here's how the top five ranked.

App 1: Spark

Spark is an excellent app for users with multiple email accounts to browse. It offers the most features on our list and some of the smartest options in the App Store. No app is perfect, but if there's an app that can do almost anything, it's Spark.

However, if you're looking for POP3 support, Spark may not be right for you. Although the app supports many popular e-mail accounts and IMAP and SMTP, but POP3 is not one of them.

Spark's "Smart Inbox" divides all incoming emails into three categories: "Personal," "Notifications," and "Newsletters." Personal is displayed at the top of the app, giving you a clear and concise view of the emails that require your immediate attention. Notifications range from new sign-in messages from Google to Amazon shipping confirmations. Newsletters may contain up-to-date e-mail newsletters for which you have subscribed. However, this section will most likely show ads and junk emails as well.

Spark also includes many customization options. You can choose which of the above folders will be displayed in your Smart Inbox. You can also choose to sort or group the folders by e-mail account in separate folders. It's difficult to return to an old way of creating an email after using an app like Spark. You begin to ignore everything that is not in your personal folder (because so much of what lands in the other two folders does not matter).

Unfortunately, Spark does not incorporate "bundles" into its email service several e-mails of the same type are combined in a single e-mail. It also does not have a VIP mailbox, but the "smart" features are so good that you might not even notice.

Spark supports four wiping actions simultaneously, two on both sides of an e-mail. You can tailor each action to your needs so you can read and sort emails as quickly as possible. It also offers the "Select All" option in mailboxes, folders, and search, but does not support iOS 13's quick-dial feature. Although the search does not include an attachment filter, you can easily search for attachments by typing in the file type.

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There are also smart notifications that can help you keep your mind alert When the emails arrive, you're only being called by the most important emails, so you can relax if you know you have not distant princes requesting money on their lock screen.

Aprop os lock screen, you never have to leave it at Spark. You can quickly reply to e-mails you receive here without having to start Spark. This makes e-mails feel more like texting, but remember to keep them business friendly. The app also saves your frequent searches and supports PINs.

You can not mute conversations in Spark, but the app supports rich text formatting. Perhaps more impressive is the "Teams" feature of the app. When you work with other Spark users, you can easily communicate with e-mail threads using instant messages and assign emails to users, among many other collaboration tools. Templates are also supported in teams so you can create templates that the entire workspace can access.

While Spark includes signature support, the app does not work with the system-wide dark mode of iOS 13, which is surprising given the fact that the app normally supports new features on the iPhone. Nevertheless, you can choose a color scheme with Spark. You can choose between black, dark blue and light blue.

Spark Works So With Siri Shortcuts You can stop using the email Accelerate apps on iOS in a simple way. Although you can not assign specific alert tones here, you can choose to use the Spark Tone Suite or keep the traditional iOS sounds. There's no in-app unsubscription, which is a pity, but you can choose to open links in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Spark's in-app browser.

Spark allows you to block trackers by disabling "load remote images" in their browser's privacy settings. It also includes an undo send option so you do not have to worry about accidentally sending a half-finished email to your boss. You can not block addresses and Spark is not encrypted, but the app is updated regularly. You can choose from nine preferred languages ​​and use filters to find the emails you really need. As with all third-party apps, you can not create a full-page screenshot at this time.

Spark's 3D Touch integration is a great addition that really feels like an app for iOS. That said, it has not figured out what to do with non-3D touch devices because there's no haptic touch compatibility yet. Your new iPhone 11 can access quick actions through the app icon, but you need 3D Touch to access quick actions in emails.

Security for Face IDs and Touch IDs that give you peace of mind It does not matter if your emails contain sensitive information or if you just care about your privacy. You can also use custom fonts through installed font profiles.

Spark also has calendar integration built into the app. This not only means that calendars from all attached accounts are displayed in the Spark Calendar, but that calendar requests received by email are easy to accept or reject. App. If you use Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote and more, you can easily link your accounts.

It's true, Mail has no smart inboxes or bundles like Spark and others on this list. You can not choose to send emails later, and you can not delete emails in your inbox, which is a disappointment. If you are looking for a smarter email application, mail may not be the right choice for you.

What Mail Can Do is to offer you a VIP mailbox, which no other app on this list can provide. You may not have a smart inbox, but having a VIP mailbox should make your email experience almost confusing. And like any good mail app, Mail supports four swipe actions. After all, this is Apple – you know that iOS features integrate with the company's native apps.

You Can not Select All Items When Searching In Email, but you can use iOS 13's new Quick Pick feature instead. You can also search attachments and delete emails found through the bulk search. Mail also lets you hide your designs for more multitasking. If you ask me, it works and looks better than Spark. You simply swipe over your design to hide it at the bottom of the display. It is very unobtrusive, but also gives you easy access for later editing.

Mail has a widget, of course. Although traditional smart notifications are not supported, you can manually select the Notify option to receive notifications for specific email threads. A surprise here is the omission of a quick response from the lock screen. You would think Apple would allow you to quickly reply to emails like replying to a text or an iMessage, but unfortunately not.

Mail does not save your frequent searches, but its tagging system supports up to seven colors. You can easily mute conversations and customize those conversations with rich text formatting. There is no team or template support, but you can create signatures. You'll also find that emails switch between light and dark depending on the system theme. This is not surprising given that this is an Apple standard app. However, there are no custom themes.

Mail obviously works with Siri Shortcuts and like other popular iOS apps you can use the warning tones to adjust. You can unsubscribe from emails in the app, but you can not choose where to open links. Apple forces you to open Safari. The company does this a little bit of balance by adding "load remote images" as an option in the settings so you can block trackers.

You can not undo sent messages. So be careful when firing these emails. However, you can block and even encrypt individual e-mail addresses, provided you go through the painful system of certificates. As with all apps built into iOS, Mail was last updated in September 2019 with iOS 13.1.2.

With Mail, you can choose from up to 40 preferred languages ​​and filter your inbox for more focused experience. It's also the only app in this list that lets you create full-page screenshots. This may be useful for sharing long emails in separate apps. Mail apparently contains the Quick Action feature for all iPhones, whether or not they are compatible with 3D Touch. Surprisingly, the app excludes protection for Face ID or Touch ID. You'd think Apple would include the protection that any other third-party app on our list offers, but I think they think your iPhone's lock screen is safe enough.

You can find all the font profiles installed in the Rich Text Editor on your device , However, if you require the integration of the app into an e-mail client, Mail is not for you. Apple did not include calendar or third-party app integration in its iOS email option. It's not a total deal-breaker, but it's a disappointment. You'd at least hope Apple adds in-app support for their own calendar app, but well, I think that's what the App Switcher is for.

App 3: Outlook

Outlook may be a Microsoft creation. but it works fine on iOS. It's packed with features that allow you to send emails in a targeted way. Outlook is undoubtedly an excellent email client, even if it has its errors.

Outlook intelligently sorts and matches your numerous email accounts in a "focused inbox" (also known as smart inbox) to give you a clean overview of the most important information. You may be shocked to see how few emails appear in your Inbox. Most e-mails sorted from this inbox, however, are unimportant.

If you want to make sure that Outlook does not overlook important e-mails, or you are just curious about what automated e-mails did not get into your inbox. Tap "Other," just to the right of "Concentrated" to see how each email is sent in your own way (except spam, of course).

Outlook does not use bundles, nor does it allow you to schedule sending emails at a later time. You can turn off emails for later viewing so you can focus on the right things at the right time. There is no VIP mailbox, but your focused inbox filters only your important messages.

Focused Inbox (left). Other (right).

Outlook integrates well with iOS, but does not fully exploit the potential of the software. Like many other apps, Outlook uses swipe gestures for certain customizable tasks. By default, swipe right to set swipe actions, or swipe left to archive. I want Outlook to apply overlaid swipe gestures – half a swipe activates one function, while a full swipe activates another. A jerk, but other e-mail clients already have this feature.

Outlook does not support the selection of all elements in the search nor the quick selection of multiple emails. You can search for attachments, but not delete large amounts of search results, or hide your designs for multitasking. However, Outlook has a widget for their app, which is handy in any case.

As with the best "smart" email apps, Outlook sends you smart notifications so junk mail does not take over your lock screen. However, there is no option for a quick response. All answers must be sent without exception through the Outlook app. However, Outlook stores your frequent searches so you do not have to enter the same query twice.

The Microsoft app includes a color-coding option, but does not include options for mute, rich text formatting, teams, or templates. That is, it supports both signatures and the dark mode of iOS 13, so the app always reflects the theme of your system. You can also override this theme by selecting either the persistent light or dark mode in the app.

You Can Choose From A Selection Of Outlook Sounds, But You can also fall back on the standard sounds of iOS. The app also offers the best selection of browser options, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge. You'll also find a setting to block trackers just like the first two apps we've covered.

In Outlook, there is no option to either undelete or block addresses. However, you can enable encryption by setting up certificates. Microsoft keeps the app up to date and includes 75 preferred language options in Preferences, the largest number in this list. Filters are here to make your inbox clearer, but unfortunately no full-page screenshots.

You can protect your valuable emails with Face ID or Touch ID, so even if someone manages to gain access to your iPhone, they won&#39;t be able to open Edison. Unfortunately, there is no custom font support here, nor any calendar or third-party app integration, but there are plenty of pros to outweigh those cons.

App 5: myMail

MyMail may not be as intelligent as Outlook or as feature-rich as Spark, but it&#39;s definitely a capable email client for anyone looking for something new. You might not find the most focused inbox around, but you will get some great features that make managing email a breeze.

Intelligent features are where myMail disappoints in comparison to the other apps on this list. First, myMail does not feature either a Smart Inbox or bundles. While you can schedule emails, you can&#39;t snooze emails, which means you can&#39;t tell myMail to view messages at a later time. And there&#39;s no VIP mailbox, which means you can&#39;t sort incoming emails from your important senders into a focused inbox.

Where MyMail shines is with app features. The app tops the others on this list by offering five swipe actions, and they all come with one swipe, whereas actions are typically split between left and right swipes. Searching is another area where MyMail makes up. The app lets you select all when searching, and while you can&#39;t quick select multiple emails, you can search attachments, and delete search results in bulk.

MyMail doesn&#39;t offer draft hiding, but it does have its own widget, an upgrade from the last time we reviewed the app. You won&#39;t find automatic smart notifications, but you can tweak notifications settings in-app to make sure the notifications you receive are from senders you care about.

The lack of a quick reply from the lock screen is disappointing, but, to be fair, not many apps have this feature. You can save frequent searches, and get one color of flag support, but there are some missing features; you can&#39;t mute conversations; there&#39;s no rich text formatting; no teams; and no templates. You can use signatures, but myMail hasn&#39;t updated to support iOS 13 dark mode. That said, you can choose between two themes, however, both are light rather than dark.

MyMail doesn&#39;t offer support for Siri Shortcuts, which could be a bummer if you enjoy that extra level of efficiency. That said, you can customize your alert sounds, and unsubscribe to emails directly in-app. MyMail offers browser support for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and its own in-app browser. Missing here is the ability to block trackers, undo sent messages, and block addresses you don&#39;t want to hear from.

Interestingly, myMail offers encryption on its platform, meaning your emails are secure to your device. The app stays regularly updated, and offers 25 preferred languages in Settings. You can use filters to, well, filter through your emails, but you can&#39;t take full-page screenshots at the moment.

MyMail does not include Quick Action support in-app. The app only includes Quick Actions on the home screen icon. However, there is Face ID and Touch ID security in myMail, which, coupled with its encryption, makes myMail a strong choice when it comes to privacy.

MyMail, much like Edison or Mail, lags behind with integration. For one, there are no custom font options here. MyMail also supports neither calendar nor third-party app integration, meaning you need to jump between the apps you want to work in when using MyMail.

In short, MyMail is a great email client, as are the other four on this list. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, with some featuring excellent options yet missing others that are found in different apps. It&#39;s really about weighing the differences and finding the app that best suits your needs. And when those apps happen to all be free, there&#39;s no excuse not to test them all out.